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	'<{title}>' => 'The Marvellous Land of Oz',
	'<{subtitle}>' => 'Written in <span title="World Literature">ENGL 1405</span> by <a href="https://y.st./">Alexand(er|ra) Yst</a>, finalised on 2018-08-08',
	'<{copyright year}>' => '2018',
	'takedown' => '2017-11-01',
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<p>
	One of my all-time favourite fairy tales is The Marvellous Land of Oz, the first of several sequels to widely-known fairy tale, The Wizard of Oz.
	The entire section of the Oz series that was written by Lyman Frank Baum is great, though especially between books, there are a lot of inconsistencies and plot holes.
	(Other authors have contributed to the Oz series, but I haven&apos;t read their works.)
	In this particular story, a child runs away from his caretaker, because his caretaker, a witch, is going to murder him in the morning.
	As this is a children&apos;s book, this is told in a way that sounds less brutal that it actually is: the which will transform him into an inanimate object, not technically killing him, but rendering him no longer alive.
	Even the in-story protagonist recognizes the implications of this.
	He doesn&apos;t want to die, so he flees when the witch goes to bed.
	He travels across Oz making friends, eventually finding out that his whole life has been a lie.
	He&apos;s not even a he, for example, but a she.
	She was a princess, but was kidnapped during the period in which the great Wizard of Oz took over, and she&apos;s the true heir to the kingdom of Oz.
	To hide her from discovery, she was transfigured into the form of a boy by the witch.
	She was too young at the time to remember this, and grew up thinking she was a male peasant.
	According to this tale, the Wizard of Oz was the one to have her kidnapped, and he forcefully took over the kingdom.
	In later instalments of the series though, he was a better person and had nothing to do with her kidnapping.
	Like I said, the Oz series is full of plot holes; Baum seemed unable to commit to a particular chain of events, and one of his stories begins with you meeting a character who had supposedly dies in a previous book.
</p>
<p>
	I suppose a big part of the reason I connect with it is because I too grew up with everyone telling me I was a boy.
	I&apos;ve never felt like a boy though.
	I&apos;m male, but I&apos;m actually nonbinary, so my personality doesn&apos;t fit into the category of boyish or girlish.
	I&apos;ve never been into sports for example, though my parents did try to push me into football.
	I was a child at the time and don&apos;t remember this, but according to my mother, I used to play with daisies on the field instead of actually playing the game.
	I&apos;m also not into makeup though either.
	Instead, I like looking at flowers and programming computers; an odd mix.
	According to scientists that study human brains, male brains and female brains are structurally different from one another, and we queers actually have brains that have a mix of characteristics of both male and female brains.
	Because my brain is mixed but my outer body isn&apos;t, I don&apos;t get recognised for what I really am, just like the transfigured princess.
	And like the transfigured princess, I wasn&apos;t aware of why I was different than those around me, although she didn&apos;t even seem aware <strong>*that*</strong> she was different.
</p>
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